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1000 Environment-Friendly Youth Ambassadors ActionHong Kong Programme - Green Innovation Design Competition

1. Introduction

To increase Chinese youngsters’ awareness on

environmental protection, the Center for

Environmental Education and Communications

of Ministry of Environmental Protection of the

People’s Republic of China (CEEC) has

collaborated with other government departments

and organizations to launch a project, namely

“1000 Environmental-Friendly Youth

Ambassadors Action”, in various cites and

regions in China since 2009. This project

intends to attract millions of people’s attention

to the importance of environmental protection in

China and also to win people’s support for

volunteering works on energy saving.

The Hong Kong Programme of this project (“the

Programme”) has started since 2011. In this year,

the Programme targets to involve two groups of

young people from secondary schools and

tertiary institutions to participate in various

activities for promoting environmental

protection. For the group of tertiary students, a

“Green Innovation Design Competition” will be

organized with an aim to stimulating their green

innovative ideas.

2. Organizer and Parties Involved

The Programme is administrated and

coordinated by the honorable advisor of CEEC

of MEP of People’s Republic of China, Ms

Mabel Mak. The Kadoorie Farm & Botanic Garden is the supporting organization and the Hong Kong Productivity Council is the implementation Agent of the Hong Kong Programme.

3. Objective

The Competition aims to:

facilitate youngsters’ creation of green and

innovative ideas which can be applied for

improving our environment;

educate youngsters to support a low carbon

lifestyle; and

enhance networking among youngsters in

Hong Kong and other Mainland cities.

4. Awards

Gold Award, Silver Award, Bronze Award

and Certificates of Merit will be granted to

the winners of the Competition;

Institution of the 5 winning teams will

r e c e i v e t r o p h i e s w i t h w o r d i n g

on it.



The title will be

bestowed to students of the top 5 winning

teams;

Free “Youth Environmental Training”

camp will be offered to students of the top

5 winning teams; and

Other then the winning teams, appreciation

Certificates will be issued to each

participant and Institution who has joined

the Competition to recognize their support

to the Programme.

5. Rules of Competition

There is no limit on number of applications

for each institution.

Each team should not exceed 4 members.

Each team should identify an entry that is

compatible to the theme of “Green

Innovation” for competition.

The entry can be a product, a type of service

or a “conceptual idea” associated with the

theme.

Final-Year-Projects or course projects with

“Green Innovation” elements are also

acceptable for the Competition.

Teams selected for the final adjudication

should present their entries to an

adjudicating panel. The entry can be

either presented in a way of a “real

product/service” or as a “conceptual idea”.

6. Competition Details

The competition will be divided into two stages,

namely Initial Assessment, and Final

Adjudication.

Stage 1 – Initial Assessment

Based on the information provided in the

application form by the participating teams, the

top 20 entries will be selected.

Each selected team is required to submit a report

detailing the green and innovative idea of their

entry. The report should state clearly the

concept and specialty of the green innovation,

its scope of applications, and its benefits to the

environment. Their entries will then be

evaluated by a professional team during the

face-to-face or phone interviews.

All entries will be used as the showcases during

the Award Presentation Ceremony, so that their

green innovations for improving the

environment can be introduced to the public.

According to the established assessment criteria

including the degree of green innovation,

practicality and scale of benefits, etc., the top 5

entries will be selected and will proceed to the

Final Adjudication stage to compete for the

awards.



Stage 2 – Final Adjudication Presentation

The Final Adjudication aims at selecting entries

with the most outstanding ideas on green and

innovation. An adjudication panel, comprising

representatives from the Programme organizer,

supporting organizations, implementation agent,

sponsors, industries, Government and

trade/industry associations etc., will be

established.

During the Final Adjudication, each team will be

required to give a short presentation about their

entry. The Adjudication Panel will then evaluate

the entries according to the following

assessment criteria:

level of innovation;

level of green merits;

market potential; and

commercializability.

The results will be announced immediately after

the Final Adjudication at the Award Presentation

Ceremony, which will be held on 18 July 2013

(Thursday).

7. Workshop

All interested parties are welcome to join a

workshop which also features an environmental

visit on 16 March 2013. The workshop aims to

introduce the background, rules and adjudicating

criteria of the Competition, the basics of green

and innovative design, as well as let attendees

an appreciation of green innovative measures

and technologies.

8. Application Procedure

Interested parties may complete the attached

application form and return it to the Competition

Secretariat by the following means:

Email:

[email protected] for Mr. Tim Chan

[email protected] for Ms. Kitty Leung

Fax:

2776 1617

(Attn: Mr. Tim Chan / Ms. Kitty Leung)

9. Deadline

The application deadline for the Competition is

on 26 April 2013 (Friday).

10. Enquiries

For any enquiries about the Competition, please

contact:

Mr. Tim Chan at (Tel: 2788 6142, Email:

[email protected]); or

Ms. Kitty Leung at (Tel: 2788 5890, Email:

[email protected])



Terms and Conditions

1. The applicant by submitting this application declares and represents that the substance of his/her submission, to the

extent that they are work of his/her own, personal, intellectual effort.

2. The organizer, the Programme supporting organizations and implementation agent, and sponsor of the Competition

will assume no liability on work submitted, accused of plagiarism, copyright issues, or any intellectual property

rights issues related to the entries and works submitted. The applicants must take sole responsibility and in such

case, the applicants shall indemnify the committee for any loss or damages and their admission to the Competition

shall be terminated immediately.

3. All entries will be subject to the Terms and Conditions including those pertinent to selection that will be imposed

by the adjudication panel as deemed necessary.

4. The organizer, the Programme supporting organizations and implementation agent reserve the right to determine

the eligibility of any applications.

5. The organizer, the Programme supporting organizations and implementation agent reserve the right in their sole

and absolute discretion to disqualify any applicants who the organizer, the Programme supporting organizations

and implementation agent have reason to believe has breached any of these Terms and Conditions, or engaged in

any unlawful or other improper misconduct calculated to jeopardize the fair and proper conduct of the Competition.

The organizer, the Programme supporting organizations and implementation agent reserve all legal rights to

recover damages or other compensation from such an applicant.

6. The organizer, the Programme supporting organizations and implementation agent reserve the right to limit, refuse

or withdraw any entrant at any stage of the Competition without any explanation.

7. The organizer, the Programme supporting organizations and implementation agent reserve the right to change the

Competition details without prior notice.

8. The organizer, the Programme supporting organizations and implementation agent shall require the applicants to

participate in publicity events in relation to the Awards and the applicants shall not unreasonably refuse to

participate in same.

9. The organizer, the Programme supporting organizations and implementation agent are free to use all works

submitted by the applicant for performance, promotion, marketing and display purposes without any prior consent

of the applicants.

10. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendation expressed by the Competition does not reflect the views of

the organizer, the Programme supporting organizations and implementation agent. The organizer, the Programme

supporting organizations and implementation agent shall not be held liable for any indirect, special, punitive,

consequential or other damages (including without limitation lost profits) of any kind in connection with the

Competition materials and activities.



11. Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) has adopted a Personal Data (Privacy Policy). Information about the

policy is available at HKPC enrolment counters for collection. You may also contact our Personal Data Controlling

Officer for further details. All the information obtained from the organizations would be used solely for the

Competition, while the contact person’s name and position, telephone number, fax number and email address etc

may be used by the organizer and the Programme implementation agent for liaison with the applicant organization

in relation to other environmental activities.

12. Applicants should immediately contact Mr. Tim Chan at (852) 2788 6142 or Ms. Kitty Leung at (852) 2788 5890 if

no acknowledgement of application is received from the Competition Secretariat within 7 working days from the

date of application.



1000 Environment-Friendly Youth Ambassadors ActionHong Kong Programme - Green Innovation Design Competition

Application Form(Deadline on 26 April 2013)

Section A: Background Information of the Applicant

Name of Institution

Contact Person Tel Email

Team Members * Team Leader

Name Department Tel Email

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Notes to the Applicant

Please try to keep the answer for each question within 200 words.Description can be in "bullet" form.Relevant information such as charts, photos, or statistics, etc. can be attached with this application form.

Complete the Form and return it to Hong Kong Productivity Councilvia Fax: (852) 2776 1617 or Email: [email protected]



Section B: Entry Details

Title of the entry

Why was the entry proposed?



1. Innovative Elements

1.1 What are the innovative elements of your entry?

1.2 How is the originality of the entry? Is it purely your team’s idea? or is it an idea that is inspired by other ideas? If your idea or entry has been involved other external parties, please clearly describe the division of work among different parties and the extent of involvement of respective parties.



1.3 Is there any similar idea exists in the market? If so, how does your entry work different from those existing inventions?

1.4 What is your team expectation on such entry? Do you expect the entry will make an impact to the society? Please provide your team expected benefits (preferably quantifiable) as far as possible?



2. Environmental Elements

2.1 What is/are the MAJOR environmental benefit(s) of your entry? Please quantify the environmental benefit(s) if applicable. (e.g. the net energy / resources savings per year)

2.2 Does your entry create OTHER or MULTIPLE environmental benefits?



2.3 Does your entry receive any recognition?

Details of recognition Year

Please provide supporting documents for claimed recognition.

3. Commercializability and Cost-effectiveness

3.1 How does the entry suit for market needs? Is there any market demand? (If yes, please provide details)



3.2 Is your entry easy to accommodate the changing market?

3.3 What is the cost of developing your entry?

*** Thank You ***

Declaration by Entrant

I hereby declare that all information given in this application form is true, accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge.

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